Some of it is on by blog in one way or another and the rest will be added in due course. Pretty much though, everything ends up on my blog. Its not a how to help blog, its more or less just my diary of what i am doing, weather it works or not. Often, not.

Well I'm working on a McMurdo-Silver VTVM. This is recapped and working. Just need to replace some tubes and solder the batteries in place.

Also a Gonset G66B receiver -- it powers up but just static. Probably because I don't yet have the motorola adapter to I can add an antenna.

After that I plan to move on to an RME-69 for the rest of the winter. I have one complete. The other is complete except for the S-meter. So that is either a second restoration or a parts donor for the first depending on condition. If anyone has the matching speaker or the preselector for this I'd be interested. After that I'm thinking about finding a 1930s transmitter to match with this -- although I will probably have to build one since there are very few commercial transmitters in that era.

For RF related, I am rebuilding a homebrewed 3cx3000a7 amplifier built around and old Henry chassis with some extremely heavy duty iron for the power supply. 400watts in gets about 6000watts out. Plenty of headroom with 100watts input.

Zone 5: me coming out of the house armed shouting "you must be out of your mind" over the PA system, because some fool headed for the side of the house nobody but me should approach. obnoxious wake up the dead sounds; there is a cemetery next door, so we will see..

Zone 6: the DONONOMO doorbell, for people who don't know no mo' better than to ring the obvious doorbell button at mi casa. delivery people preachers, and people who want to check out the junkyard. odd but harmless sounds; elephants, barking dogs, fog horns.

Zone 7: the doorbell for people who know me well enough to look around and spot something out of place, a garden gnome; a Buddha statue, spot the button, and kick it. hundreds of possibilities; movie sounds, theme songs, fog horns

no "ding dong." no bird sounds, we live next to a bird sanctuary. no trains; 50 yards to the tracks. no gunshot sounds

worked on it for two years with zero results. then I discovered three things in one day:

My Arduino Mega is defective: no serial ports work

my Neo6 GPS modules are actually 3.3 V modules with an on board 5 volt regulator. they survive 5 VDC going to them; but they return 3.3 VDC, which is marginal for a 5 VDC module. a level converter solved that problem.

they don't work with the current generation of Arduino libraries. you have to use older libraries to get results.

so I finally got the GPS to work. current project: get a display going, so I have an ongoing indication that the GPS & Arduino are functioning. then, buttons. then, SD card logging. Then the Tsunami, which has its own challenges

when the doorbell finally works, I want to add the ability to operate the PA over the 222 MHz band, with the combination of CTCSS & DTMF control to keep intruders off the PA.

next step as in by the time you read this: adding a GPS antenna in the workshop, so I can do everything from back there, then bring the finished project up front when it's ready for the real world.

PA is one more thing in this world that is not explained well, in one place, anywhere. simple enough when you have all the info, but you have to sift through twenty sites to get everything you need to know.